The Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Retired Deputy Inspector General of Police, Hashimu Argungu has called for innovation and proper use of electronic evidence and other modern devices in the nation’s legal system.
Retired DIG Argungu said violation of human rights has taken a new dimension in this 21st century, stressing that the key challenges and threats are mostly the current passive and obsolete criminal justice system as well as lack of rebalanced criminal justice system in the area of victimology.
The PSC Chairman made the remark at the International Human Rights Day 2024 with theme “Our Rights, Our Future, Right now: All Humans are born free and equal in Dignity and Rights” that held at the Nigerian Bar Association National Secretariat Auditorium, Central Business District, Abuja.
In a statement issued by the spokesman of the commission, mr. ikechukwu Ani, he said there is a glaring lack of innovation and proper use of electronic evidence and other relevant devices.
DIG Argungu lamented that the old laws and regulations “appear to be uncertain and obsolete and also becoming harder for the regulations to keep up with technology.
“It is doubtful that new languages in law could anticipate the cleverness of technology”
DIG Argungu also noted the conflicts of procedural laws in the area of disposal of exhibits in cases disposed off in law courts.
The PSC Chairman said that there was need at “this hour of 21st century and fourth Industrial Revolution, for “all Lawyers and Judicial Staff to have training in recognition of offences committed through computer and how electronic evidence can be obtained and preserved”
He stressed “we should also bear in mind that an old-fashioned way of long-hand writing in taking court proceedings is already obsolete and ineffective in today’s world”.
Obsolete Legal System Impedes Proper Use Of Electronic Evidence – PSC Chair
